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Anonymous@00.19am
Any lawyer providing advice and representation to a Client is providing Counsel, nothing to do with Higher Rights. Equally, Claims Management Companies provide advice and representation to their Clients. They also conduct reserved and regulated activities, LSA 2007 and Compensation Act 2006. They are also Counsel, but could you imagine National Accident Helpline (as example only) calling themselves “of Counsel”? My opinion, and I appreciate others may not agree, is that saying you are “of Counsel”, by using the title in a specific way infers you are a Barrister. I am not saying that Solicitor Advocates cannot refer to themselves as Counsel, merely that using the title in a certain format gives a certain impression.

Anonymous@07.57am
That is not what Fellowship means. You are wrong. Thank you for asking, I practice construction law, I was previously Fellow of the Chartered Association of Building Engineers, and a Fellow of the Faculty of Building, I am currently a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Fellow of the Society of Professional Engineers, and later this year hope to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. None come with a badge. Never ask a question when you don’t already know the answer.